The Lumen Prize will open its 6th annual call for entries on March 22. The prize celebrates the work of artists working with technology. Open Call – 2017 Lumen Prize An international open call for artists engaged with digital technology. Deadline: June 1, 2017 Welcoming submi … | Continue reading
Hosted at the Botanical Garden in Padua, the PREFORMA Innovation Workshop brought together more than 100 attendees interested in digital preservation and cultural heritage to present the open source conformance checkers developed in the project and discuss about the business mode … | Continue reading
The latest version of veraPDF is now available for download on the PREFORMA Open Source Portal. The latest version of veraPDF is now available for download on the PREFORMA Open Source Portal. This release is the first of the PREFORMA testing phase and it is focused on bug fixing … | Continue reading
In the framework of the Digital Humanities Awards 2016, an international prize yearly bestowed to Resources in Digital Humanities. EAGLE Mediawiki has been awarded as Best DH Tool or Suite of Tools at the Digital Humanities Awards 2016, an international prize yearly bestowed to R … | Continue reading
tradigital, contemporary painting, new media art, digital modernism Mehran Yazdi is an international artist from Iran, who is presenting himself as a digital modernist painter in 21′st century. He is active both on the local and international level and already had some exhibition … | Continue reading
To launch the campaign, Europeana is inviting users to create digital records of handwritten personal letters of WWI in the first Love Transcribathon of Europeana 1914-1918 With the end of the art-based Europeana 280 campaign, Europeana is opening a new chapter with the launch of … | Continue reading
Paris (France), 19-22 June 2017 Communicating the Museum (CTM) was launched in Paris in 2000 and since then over 5’000 professionals from the cultural sector have attended this conference. During 4 days of the 2017 edition, the participants of the conference will analyse trends, … | Continue reading
Challenges of DiCultHer for the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 - meeting in Rome “Le sfide DiCultHer per l’anno europeo del patrimonio culturale” Roma, 15 marzo 2017 Ministero dei beni e delle attività culturali e del turismo Sala della Crociera, Palazzo del Collegio Ro … | Continue reading
The award LIVE WORKS includes a creative residency period, for nine selected projects / deadline 31 March LIVE WORKS is a platform dedicated to live contemporary practices that contribute to deepening and broadening the idea of performance, following the current evolution of perf … | Continue reading
testing wearables as a new approach to interactive storytelling The innovative project personal.curator, in collaboration with FluxGuide and the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, researches impact and possibilities of wearables in museums. Now, the first real world test has … | Continue reading
London (UK), 9 March - 19 May 2017 The Royal British Society of Sculptors is delighted to announce Joseph Hillier FRBS’ solo exhibition in which he harnesses the awesome possibilities of digital technologies to create a new body of work that ‘questions the digital revolution we a … | Continue reading
Cortina d'Ampezzo (Italy), 5-9 June 2017 Leading brands in the global market are those which constantly innovate their products and services, their communication and marketing strategies. This is true for cultural brands as well. To ensure their success, they need to anticipate t … | Continue reading
as a final outcome of the E-Space Dance Pilot, the portal for accessing and searching dance resources The Dance Pilot of E-Space had the aim to create tools for enabling the use of digital cultural content about dance for education and learning. DanceSpaces focuses on the needs o … | Continue reading
On show for students, teachers and passers-by, two photographic exhibitions on the Belle Époque: “Man meets world”, and “Cuisine” By Clarissa Colangelo, KU Leuven As the new semester begins here at KU Leuven, we have kicked it off with a small surprise for the students: from the … | Continue reading
Milan (Italy), 27-28 April 2017 The purpose of the Conference, that will close the research: “Management methodologies and innovative mapping tools for Cultural Heritage. Digital Heritage FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Tools, OpenWebGIS, Open-Data”, is to provide an occasi … | Continue reading
Deadline 30th April 2017 MEMORIAMEDIA (MI/IELT) has a peer reviewed e-journal dedicated to promote, communicate and document projects, studies and archives of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH). Authors are now invited to submit unpublished papers, videos or e-exhibitions about a … | Continue reading
Vancouver, BC (Canada) 29-30 November 2017 We’d like to invite you to submit your papers/posters/demo proposals for the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2017 to be held from 29-30 November 2017 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. FTC attracts researchers, scientists and technologists … | Continue reading
Olimje (Slovenia), 23-25 May 2017 ITN-DCH FINAL CONFERENCE is an international event for the professionals working in the Digital Cultural Heritage domain. The aim of the conference is to bring together experts and leaders from the cultural domain and, addressing the current chal … | Continue reading
Abstract submission deadline: 10th March 2017. the Conference takes place on 23-25 May 2017 in Slovenia. The EU FP7 PEOPLE (Marie-Curie) ITN2013 ITN-DCH project (www.itn-dch.eu) is in its final year and it is organizing a unique conference in the domain of Digital Cultural Herita … | Continue reading
Space Archaeologist Funds Citizen Science Platform With $1M TED A year ago, University of Alabama professor Sarah Parcak won a $1 million TED Prize for her work in "space archaeology" -- using satellite imagery beamed down from space to search for archaeological sites lost throug … | Continue reading
Press release - 16 February 2017 The third phase of the public PCP launched by PREFORMA started on 16 February 2017, with the virtual kick-off meeting of the testing phase. After an analysis of the results achieved and of the software released by the three suppliers that complete … | Continue reading
Pori (Finland), 27-29 September 2017 The Heritage, Tourism and Hospitality conferences focus on the question: “How can tourism destinations succeed in attracting tourists while simultaneously engaging all stakeholders in contributing to the preservation of natural and cultural he … | Continue reading
the tool for multilingual translations of Greek and Roma inscriptions participates to Digital Humanities Awards EAGLE project and network aims to build a multi-lingual online collection inscriptions from the Greek and Roman World. The aim of the network is to make available the v … | Continue reading
Making use of the open licence of the Photomediations book, the Danish journal and website BAGGRUND has translated chapter 1 about optics and light. Photomediations: An Open Book is the major outcome of Open and Hybrid Publishing Pilot of Europeana Space. Through a comprehensive … | Continue reading
organized by Cultural Studies, another pop-up exhibition of Europeana Space is taking place for a limited period in Leuven KU Leuven hosts the Europeana Space Pop-Up Museum on the Belle Epoque at Agora KU Leuven. It is on display at the TimeOut Zone near the entrance. Bring your … | Continue reading
WikiCite 2017 is a 3-day conference, summit and hack day to be hosted in Vienna, Austria, on May 23-25, 2017. It expands on efforts started last year at WikiCite 2016 to design a central bibliographic repository, as well as tools … Continue reading → | Continue reading
an audiovisual artist based in Quito, soon coming to Europe for his summer tour Fidel Eljuri is an audiovisual artist living and working in Quito, Ecuador. He creates immersive experiences that explore the relationship between the cosmology of man and the natural environment over … | Continue reading
Edinburgh, 16-17 March 2017 IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) is a developing standard for accessing and presenting image collections. It also enables interoperability of collections in a standardised way, thereby providing opportunities to collate and/or co-c … | Continue reading
Grenoble, 26-30 June 2017 The University of Grenoble-Alpes together with the Maison de Sciences de l’Homme-Alpes with the sponsorship of ITN DIXIT* organises a summer school in Digital Editing and Digital Humanities. Details will be published shortly, but the summer school is aim … | Continue reading
Brussels (Belgium), 21 March 2017 Culture represents an extensive economic asset and a valuable source of creativity and innovation. According to the European Parliament’s report on EU policy for cultural and creative industries (June 2016), Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs … | Continue reading
expressions of interest to be sent by Thursday 16 February 2017 EUDAT, EGI and INDIGO-DataCloud are joining forces to address the current fragmentation of the data and computing e-Infrastructure landscape and are looking for private and public partners developing and/or providing … | Continue reading
The future as seen from the past and the past as seen from the future. Can you imagine the future? The 13th International Festival of Digital Arts of Greece – Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF), exploring the future of digital culture, is calling the artistic community to submit … | Continue reading
Augmented Reality significantly helps to engage the user with the content, in a performance that gives new meaning to the philosophy of edutaintment and learning by doing. In this article, appeared on Scires-IT journal, it is presented a case study by Alessandra Cirafici (SUN Sec … | Continue reading
Grand prize of the European Commission honoring Innovation in Technology, Industry and Society stimulated by the Arts Appointed by the European Commission, Ars Electronica, BOZAR and Waag Society are launching a prize to select the most pioneering collaborations and results in th … | Continue reading
In nearly 100 years of research, the Corpus formed a photographic archive, highly specialized in Tuscan painting from 1100 to 1400, that is currently being digitized. The Corpus of Florentine Painting is a project of the years 1920s by Richard Offner, Art Historian at New York Un … | Continue reading
Bit Rot Be Gone, second winter school for audiovisual archiving For the second year in a row, Sound and Vision organised its Winter School for audiovisual archivists. Fourteen local and international collection specialists gathered in Hilversum last week. They strengthened their … | Continue reading
deadline for submission of proposals is 1 March 2017 and the journal will be published on June 2017 SCIRES-IT (SCIentific RESearch and Information Technology) is inviting papers for Vol. 7 No. 1 which is scheduled to be published on June 2017. The deadline for submission of propo … | Continue reading
Crakow (Poland), 7-9 September 2017 The European Workshop on Applied Cultural Economics (EWACE) was founded in 1990 and is intended to provide a forum for the development and dissemination of applications of quantitative methods in cultural economics, as well as cultural-related … | Continue reading
Athens (Greece), 6-9 June 2017 ELAG (European Library Automation Group) is Europe’s premier conference that focuses on the application of Information Technology in libraries and documentation centers. The 41st International ELAG Conference main theme is “Automation: The Internet … | Continue reading
Chicago (IL) USA, 20-21 April 2017 DPLAfest 2017—the fourth major gathering of the Digital Public Library of America’s broad community—will take place on April 20-21, 2017 in Chicago at Chicago Public Library’s Harold Washington Library Center. An annual series of workshops, pres … | Continue reading
as an additional outcome of E-Space project, a useful How-To booklet about hackathons The holding of hackathons is a popular and already well-established activity that offers industries the possibility to gather people enthusiastic to develop new ideas. The E-Space project took … | Continue reading
The online course “Europeana Space: Creative with Digital Heritage” will be relaunched in 2017, under KU Leuven's coordination. by Clarissa Colangelo, KU Leuven. Article originally appeared on the E-Space Photography Pilot Blog. photo courtesy KU Leuven On January 10th 2017 the M … | Continue reading
a Memorandum of Understanding is launched after the end of the EU funding period, to continue the work done so far with E-Space As the EU-funded project ends on 31 January 2017, the partners, affiliate partners and followers of the E-Space project are invited to join the MoU for … | Continue reading
In the Content Space created by Europeana Space project are collected guidelines and tools for clearing copyright and find information about the development of business models for the exploitation of digital cultural heritage content. The Content Space contains information about … | Continue reading
10% discount off annual membership fees Building on the existing strong ties between our organisations, the Open Preservation Foundation (OPF) and BitCurator Consortium (BCC) are pleased to announce a discount trial membership opportunity that offers its members a 10% discount of … | Continue reading
by Clarissa Colangelo, KU Leuven. Article originally appeared on the E-Space Photography Pilot Blog. photo courtesy KU Leuven On January 10th 2017 the MOOC “Europeana Space: Creative with Digital Heritage” ended. With almost 1000 enrolled learners from 90 different countries … Co … | Continue reading
Potsdam, 29-30 March 2017 Putting the Cinematographic Works Standard EN 15907 to use and introducing the new FIAF Cataloguing Manual. A joint workshop by the Association des Cinémathèques Europénnes (ACE) and the FIAF Cataloguing and Documentation Commission, 29-30 Marc … | Continue reading
Europeana Space project is proud to announce the official release of a new platform, which provides services for content search, aggregation, interoperability, visualisation, publication and reuse. The E-Space Portal is a unique and efficient access point to billions of digital … | Continue reading